Facebook Open URL Redirection Vulnerability

About 2 week ago, I discovered an open url redirection vulnerability in Facebook that allowed me to have a facebook.com link redirect to any website without restrictions & users confirmation

Description:

[#] Title : Facebook Open URL Redirection

[#] Status : fixed

[#] Severity : High

[#] Works on : Any browser with any version

[#] Homepage : www.facebook.com

[#] Author : Jitendra Jaiswal ( India )

The flaw exists in the way facebook handled the u parameter. Visiting the link below would always redirect to the facebook homepage:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjeet.com

But I noticed that changing the url to a another url , for example:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com

in that the target destination yahoo.com and it will redirect successfully:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com

Facebook have the ability to filter and ban particular websites from redirecting using their automatic spam and malware analysis. But not all malware/spam can be caught by Facebook, and by the time a link is banned, an attacker would have already moved on to another link.

Video Proof of Concept:

Facebook responded after 12 days my report, and they were quick to patch the flaw in about a week and a half. The payout for this bug is $1,000.

Jitendra Jaiswal

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